Book description
Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop!
Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately. Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough. He also shows how to make the balance real, not just talk; how to make career decisions that promote balance; and how to make course corrections that refine your balance over time. Mills also exposes the potentially disastrous myths and rationalizations many people use to avoid the realities of work/life imbalance--fallacies like "I'll devote all my time to work for 15 years, get rich, and then I'll pay attention to family."
Mills' breakthrough work/life courses at the Harvard Business School are helping business people find the balance they're searching for. The techniques he's developed will help anyone struggling to get a grasp on the work/life balance challenge.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Praise for Having It All ... and Making It Work:
- Introduction: Why Read this Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities
- 2. Pursue a Process that Creates Balance: Balancing What Is Most Important to You
- 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough
- 4. Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real
- 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance
- 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination
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Six Steps to Career/Family Balance
- Step 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities
- Step 2. Pursue a Process that Creates Balance: Balancing What Is Most Important to You
- Step 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough
- Step 4. Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real
- Step 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance
- Step 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination
Product information
- Title: Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2004
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780131440227
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